Pictures and article about the work to restore the home of John Willliams "Blind" Boone, a great pioneer of American ragtime music. The home is at 10 North Fourth Street in downtown Columbia, Missouri,...

Article detailing the work of a restoration group working to convert the Benjamin Banneker School building in Parkville, Missouri, into a museum. Benjamin Banneker was a one-room, segregated school for...

A group of people are proposing an art museum be put in the old Jackson County Courthouse in Independence, Missouri, in an effort to help generate money for the $10 million restoration of the courthouse...

Article on the importance and benefits of historic landscape mapping on the conservation work being done today. Walter Schroeder looks back on his work that was published in 1981 on the presettlement prairie...

Photos and article about the renovation to condos of the Union Carbide building between 10th and 9th streets on Baltimore. The Art Deco building is listed in the National Register of Historical Places...

Before her death in 2004, Lucille Douglass worked to restore the Benjamin Banneker School in Parkville, one of the first schools built for black students in Platte County. The project languished, but the...

In 2015 the Vaile Mansion at 1500 N. Liberty Street in Indepencende underwent repairs to the woodwork around the front and entry porches. The firm Plasterkraft & Mural Masters worked on the restoration...

Color photograph in article about the purchase, move, and restoration of the 1869 E & G. G. Hook pipe organ installed at the Rainbow Mennonite Church in Kansas City, Kansas. Its former home was the abandoned...

Trozzolo Communications Group renovates the former four-story brick Nelkin-Piper Building at Eight and Wyandotte streets. It cost the firm $6.5 million. The building “originally was a millinery factory,...

Article profiles seven buildings that were previously on the Historic Kansas City Foundation's endangered buildings list, but have been restored and renovated in recent years. 1) New York Life Building...

Developer Brent Lambi wants to renovate the historic store located on Main Street and "restore it to its original charm." Lambi is in the process of purchasing the building that was declared a city landmark...

In-depth article about the Lanesfield School in Johnson County, Kansas. The one-room schoolhouse that opened in 1870 with 69 pupils was built of native fieldstone. "In March 1987, the Board of County Commissioners...

Profile of sculptor Jennifer Walker and her work restoring damaged religious statues. Walker, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has been involved in the restoration of Union Station, the Muehlebach...

Article reports on the passing of Leo A. Drey (98), an avid outdoorsman and conservationist. Drey began purchasing forest land in Shannon and Reynolds counties in the 1950s which had been depleted due...

Philanthropist Shirley Helzberg plans to restore and expand the old Vitagraph Film Exchange Building at 17th and Wyandotte for symphony offices and other tenants. Its close proximity to the Kauffman Center...

Faultless Starch/Bon Ami is spending $5 million to renovate the former Sewall Paint and Glass Company building at 1009 W. Eighth Street. Other companies are finding that restoring old buildings in the...